Results for General Fiction, set in On The High Seas

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  • Castle of Water
    Castle of Water: A Novel
    Dane Huckelbridge
    Hardcover: 04/04/2017
     
    Two very different people, one very small island.
  • The North Water
    The North Water: A Novel
    Ian McGuire
    Paperback: 03/14/2017
     
    A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and ...
  • The Lightkeepers
    The Lightkeepers
    Abby Geni
    Paperback: 01/10/2017
     
    A debut novel from a talented and provocative new writer which upends the traditional structure of a mystery ...
  • Landfalls
    Landfalls
    Naomi J. Williams
    Paperback: 12/06/2016
     
    By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the twenty-first ...
  • Speak
    Speak
    Louisa Hall
    Paperback: 05/03/2016
     
    A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence - illuminating the very ...
  • The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
    The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
    Valerie Martin
    Paperback: 02/03/2015
     
    A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as ...
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
    Maria Semple
    Paperback: 04/02/2013
     
    A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an ...

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